Californians, if you're living anywhere near Berkeley, you might want to go to this: the Skeptical Conference on 24 April. They've got some good speakers, and it should be a fun meeting.
Just don't believe anything they tell you unless they provide lots of evidence to back it up.
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OK, I'm kidding (legally, he's too young). S.R. Sidarth is the native born Virginian who was called a racist slur by Californian transplant Sen. George Allen (R-VA).
In a story about large snakes thriving in California, Hank Fox noticed an interesting warning.
And if you're a Californian, so do you. Dave Neiwert catches this bit of wingnuttery:
My friend Peter Gleick tosses this question aside and informs us that there are actually better questions. Is California having a wet year? How does the snowpack look? Are the reservoirs filling up? Will the groundwater recharge? Will the forests in the Sierra recover with all this precip?
I'll be there, but don't take *MY* word for it.
"Just don't believe anything they tell you unless they provide lots of evidence to back it up." At least that's what I thought skepticism was all about. It seems skeptical sites are promoting a new kind of NOMA.
http://skepticblog.org/2010/04/05/science-and-religion-again/
Yes I am telling on them.
Telling on them?
Oh you kids and your acronyms . . . NOMA?
New Orleans Museum of Art? National Organization of Minor Actors? Norwegian Old Men's Association? I couldn't even find it on teh googlz.
Oh, and I'll be there and do take my word for it, it's going to be a blast. We'll be having a special Friday night Skeptics in the Pub with some of the speakers the night before, see baskeptics.org for location.
Non-Overlapping Magistera (but what is the "A"?)
N-oMa is an even lamer acronym.